China Cereals and Oils Exhibition Center / Archermit

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  • Principal Architect: Youcai Pan
  • Design Director: Zhe Yang (Partner)
  • Technical Director: Renzhen Chen (Partner)
  • Structure Engineer: Xu Du
  • Design Team: Yuanjun Gou, Yi He, Yu Zhao, Wenshuang Wang, Zihan Li, Guisheng Liang, Wei Zhang
  • Article Writer: Youcai Pan, Zixuan Liu
  • The Client: Sichuan Zhongruijinye Cultural Tours LTD, Sichuan Chongzhou Grain oil Reserve Co. LTD
  • Construction Drawing Design: Chengdu CNASMITH Group Co.Ltd.
  • City: Chongzhou
  • Country: China
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China Cereals and Oils Exhibition Center / Archermit - Exterior Photography
The suspended ground floor . Image © Da Hua Mao

Text description provided by the architects. The project is located in Tangjianian, Xinhua Village, Jinjiang, Chongzhou city, Sichuan Province, where is about 50 kilometers (one-hour driving) away from the center of Chengdu. This is a typical Linpan in the west of Sichuan. The exhibition center and many Linpan are dotted between thousands of fertile fields. The forest is in the field, the courtyard is in the forest, the forest is planted with bamboo, white walls and green tiles, chickens and dogs, and small Bridges and running water can be seen everywhere. The original trees on the site are preserved and enclosed with the architecture to form four courtyards of different sizes. The trees and courtyards integrate with each other, creating the artistic conception of ”Place with a yard in the forest and a forest in the yard”. The classic Linpan image of "forest in the field and yard in the forest" is fully displayed in this place.

China Cereals and Oils Exhibition Center / Archermit - Exterior Photography
the forest and house standing on the rice field. Image © Da Hua Mao
China Cereals and Oils Exhibition Center / Archermit - Exterior Photography
the dancing residents. Image © Da Hua Mao

"Return" was the core architectural strategy at the beginning of the design of the exhibition center. Most of the ground floor of the architecture is suspended to return space to nature and the people involved in it. The suspended design of the ground floor laid a good foundation for many later interesting designs, such as the courtyard in the field, the aerial courtyard, the entrance corridor bridge, the roof joyride..., etc. 

China Cereals and Oils Exhibition Center / Archermit - Exterior Photography
The forest is in the field.. Image © Da Hua Mao
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exploded analysis. Image Courtesy of Archermit
China Cereals and Oils Exhibition Center / Archermit - Exterior Photography
white walls and green tiles. Image © Da Hua Mao

For the continuation of the original image of western Sichuan Lin Pan courtyard space, the main body is broken up into five smaller and independent spaces scattered in the site, the original trees surrounded and five construction yards of various forms, even the suspended idea won several aerial three-dimensional courtyards first up, the ground split out clever into four-yard into nine, We introduce fields, paddy fields, planting pools, trees, and other elements into the courtyard, and different elevations and shapes of the courtyard create different spatial experiences. 

China Cereals and Oils Exhibition Center / Archermit - Exterior Photography, Facade
the courtyard in the field. Image © Yutao Feng

The five independent spaces are connected together by a ramp and the external corridor. The external walls close to the ramp and the corridor are solid, while the external elements where the trees and rice fields can be seen are full floor-to-ceiling glass, forming a combination space with solid inside and void outside, cadenced, moving, private and independent. Many public buildings in rural areas are left idle and abandoned due to various management problems in the later stage. In the design of the exhibition center, we pre-planned the possibility of more functions, operations, and separation, so as to ensure that it can thrive after birth and be loved and enjoyed by everyone. 

China Cereals and Oils Exhibition Center / Archermit - Exterior Photography
the courtyard in the field. Image © Yutao Feng
China Cereals and Oils Exhibition Center / Archermit - Exterior Photography
the rice planting pond. Image © Da Hua Mao

Green tiles, white walls, wood, long eaves, and patio are the most common elements of western Sichuan folk dwellings. We combine the modern elements of a curved sloping roof and full floor-to-ceiling glass to create an open, transparent, light and free, simple and elegant, pastoral poetic place. 

China Cereals and Oils Exhibition Center / Archermit - Interior Photography, Kitchen
the patio. Image © Da Hua Mao
China Cereals and Oils Exhibition Center / Archermit - Exterior Photography
the main ramp. Image © Da Hua Mao

The courtyard, square, and corridor formed by the suspended ground floor of the building are covered by the wide eaves and become the ideal place for nearby residents to enjoy the cool, dance, and play. The rice planting pond designed at the entrance has been turned into a shallow pool due to the construction mistake, which has become a paradise for children to play in the water by a strange combination of circumstances. During the construction process, some confrontation and compromise can sometimes bring the unexpected harvest.

China Cereals and Oils Exhibition Center / Archermit - Interior Photography, Door
the resident having a rest. Image © Yutao Feng
China Cereals and Oils Exhibition Center / Archermit - Exterior Photography
the long eaves. Image © Da Hua Mao

We integrated the bridges of western Sichuan Lin Pan, eaves and courtyards of western Sichuan architectures, the leisurely culture of western Sichuan people with elements such as the entrance ramp, aerial ring corridor, scissors ramp, and roof yard, make the "aerial courtyard" into a paradise where people love to play, dinner, or have a rest for a walk and naive children enjoy. 

China Cereals and Oils Exhibition Center / Archermit - Exterior Photography
in the night. Image © Yutao Feng
China Cereals and Oils Exhibition Center / Archermit - Exterior Photography, Facade
the courtyard in the field. Image © Yutao Feng

Traditional Linpan in western Sichuan integrates with people's lifestyle and life concepts nowadays organically. On the basis of meeting people's usage habits, we hope that the exhibition center, like other surrounding Linpans, grows from this vast farmland, integrates with nature, and is a modern Linpan scattered in the field. We also hope that the exhibition center can not only meet the functions of grain oil exhibitions but also become a daily living place for the surrounding residents and a community center of the neighborhood and village. This is the greater value it gives back to the land -- the value of the return.

China Cereals and Oils Exhibition Center / Archermit - Exterior Photography
tea-break in the forest. Image © Da Hua Mao
China Cereals and Oils Exhibition Center / Archermit - Exterior Photography
the external full floor-to-ceiling glass. Image © Da Hua Mao

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Address:Tangjianian, Xinhua Village, Jinjiang, Chongzhou City, Sichuan Province, China

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Cite: "China Cereals and Oils Exhibition Center / Archermit" 07 Dec 2021. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/966389/china-cereals-and-oils-exhibition-center-archermit> ISSN 0719-8884

children on the ramp. Image © Yutao Feng

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